Chaucer's 'Literature Group' and the Medieval Causes of Books
- Author / Editor
- Astell, Ann W.
Chaucer's 'Literature Group' and the Medieval Causes of Books
- Published
- ELH 59 (1992): 269-87.
- Description
- CT Fragment VII illustrates and undercuts the Aristotelian causes of literature. Thus, ShT demonstrates the near efficient cause, the teller; PrT, the remote cause, God. Chaucer-the-Pilgrim, the final cause, separates delight and instruction in Th and Mel. In MkT, the material cause is old books; in NPT, the formal cause is style. Dream visions foreshadow, and Ret refers to all.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.